Wendell Barnhouse is a nationally-known and respected columnist who has spent over 20 years covering collegiate athletics. He has reported from 25 Final Fours and more than three dozen bowl games and has written about the Big 12 and its schools since the conference's beginning. Barnhouse will be updating the Big 12 Insider on happenings and behind-the-scenes information about the conference.

A decade after a tragedy and a scandal, Baylor is enjoying unprecedented success in athletics.

Twins Dakota and Dylan Gonzalez are freshmen basketball players who could make a huge impact on the Kansas women’s basketball team.

Here’s the USA Basketball report on Team USA’s gold medal triumph Sunday and Mike DeCourcy of The Sporting News weighed in this this story. Oklahoma State sophomore Marcus Smart was the team’s starting point guard.

Oklahoma State assistant coach Nathan Peterson, a former Cowboy, takes nothing for granted after serving a seventh-month tour in Afghanistan with the Marines.

Lauren Chamberlain of Oklahoma’s national championship softball team showed she can hit objects other than a yellow softball.

Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury recently went on a media blitz at ESPN and in New York City. Ivan Maisel of ESPN.com writes that the new Red Raiders coach has spent the last five years on an ascendant track.